@DumfriesDik - Gliclazide works by encouraging your system to up its insulin production, in an effort to cope with the food and drinks we are consuming.
Bottom line is we all need insulin in order for our metabolic processes to work, but the challenge is getting that in the correct amounts at the correct time. Of course, in a healthy, efficient body, this just happens, pretty much like magic. For those of us with sub-optimal systems, therein lies the rub.
As T2s we usually produce plenty insulin of our own, but it doesn't work too well - usually due to insulin resistance.
At the moment, from what you say about your eating patterns, you have already reduced the amount of insulin your body needs (from whatever source), by reducing the foods needing increased insulin loads to metabolise. On top of that, taking a medication encouraging your system to generate increased levels of natural insulin to metabolise your food, may be unnecessary, or unnecessary at the doses you are taking.
When you see your HCP to discuss all this, they will have protocols for meds reductions, but of course, you have input to any discussion around that.
I know on your other thread,
@Dark Horse posted a link to a UK meds reduction for T2s on a low carb diet, but I'll post it again here:
https://bjgp.org/content/69/684/360
I'd take a copy of that with me (it's only 2 pages, and available to download as a .pdf file), but such are the advantages we girlies have with our cavernous handbags!
Were I in your shoes, I would want to discuss all the options with my HCP. I'd have done the sort of reading you are already doing, plus I'd ensure I had a decent handle on how any other meds work on my body too, and I would want to have a monitoring system (test strips, plus a planned, maybe sooner than usual A1c) in place, and a "what if" plan.
By a what if plan, I mean, what happens if it doesn't seem to be going right, or if it goes too well!
I think for T2s, getting our circulating insulin levels down to as near to "normal" as possible is usually desirable. Like anything else in this life, there'll be exceptions to every rule.
Do you have an appointment yet? I bet all the surgeries will get busy on the lead up to the holidays.